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The annual Spencer County Healthfair and Readifest is this Saturday at Spencer County High School, 520 Taylorsville Road. The event is from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m., but participants are encouraged to arrive early. Students must be enrolled in Spencer County Public Schools and present to receive school supplies.

The county will be looking to name a new Emergency Management Director following the recent resignation of Jeff Coulter from that position. In addition, Coulter stepped down from the position of Emergency Medical Director and Judge-Executive John Riley is hoping to split those roles between two people in the future.

In the interim, Riley issued an executive order, naming current Road Supervisor Todd Burch to fill the Emergency Management Director and Chris Limpp, an EMS employee, as Emergency Medical Director.

On Saturday, Aug. 8, country artist and Taylorsville native JD Shelburne will host his eighth- annual St. Jude charity softball game against the 97.5 WAMZ Country HAMZ at Ray Jewell Park. The game will start at 1 p.m. and is open to the public. Before the game at 11 a.m. there will be a home-run derby to help benefit St. Jude as well, featuring Shelburne and some of players and anyone else willing to participate. There is a $5 entry fee.

Ed Mahurin spent more than a dozen years on the dive team for the Louisville Metro Police Department, a unit that often has the grim task of recovering drowning victims.

On Thursday evening, all he could do was stand on the banks of a pond near his home in Elk Chase Subdivision as divers from the Taylorsville-Spencer County Fire Department recovered the body of his 41-year-old son.

Getting sick or injured after-hours in Spencer County typically means a drive to Louisville, Shelbyville, or elsewhere for treatment. That’s something leaders say they would like to remedy.

City Commissioner Ellen Redmon recently addressed the need and announced that talks have been held with at least one health care provider, Baptist Health Care, about expanding their services in the county.

The Spencer County Public Library is currently closed due to a relocation project and will reopen to the public Saturday.

The library has moved to its temporary location at 513 Taylorsville Road because of the construction project and will remain there for around a year, said SCPL Director Debra Lawson. She said most all services available at its permanent location will be available at the temporary location including computer services, access to genealogical information, books, magazines, newspapers and the community meeting room.

For the second time this year, floodwaters covered the baseball fields at Ray Jewell Memorial Park, as well as the soccer fields at Waterford Park. The damage wasn’t as severe as the April event, but it was enough to cause local officials to discuss alternatives for youth sports in the future.

At Monday night’s meeting of the Spencer County Fiscal Court, magistrates and Judge-Executive John Riley spent several minutes talking about the impact of recent floods on private property, as well as public land like the parks.

Spencer County has a close connection with the recent tragic flooding in Johnson County, Kentucky, that left hundreds homeless and four dead.

Johnson County Emergency Management Search and Rescue Coordinator Brian Jeffiers is a Spencer County native and served as a volunteer fire fighter while in high school before graduating and relocating, Taylorsville-Spencer County Fire Chief Nathan Nation said.